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Exams

The CAT 2024 exam is scheduled for November 24, 2024, and will serve as a key step for admission to the 21 IIMs and top MBA colleges across India. IIM Calcutta will be conducting this year’s exam. As per the official CAT notification released on July 28, 2024, the registration process will open on August 1, 2024, and close on September 20, 2024.

Given the challenging nature of the CAT exam, it’s important to begin preparation well in advance, ideally at least nine months before the exam. However, if you haven’t started yet, there's still time. The final batch of the IMS CATapult Live Online Program for CAT 2024 starts in August, offering a chance to complete the syllabus and be exam-ready.

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CAT 2024 Eligibility Criteria

 

  • The candidate must possess a bachelor’s degree with a minimum 50 percent aggregate or equivalent CGPA (45 percent aggregate for SC, ST and PWD/DA category) from a recognized board or university to participate in CAT 2024

  • The candidate must have completed a professional degree (CA/ CS/ ICWA) with the required percentage

  • Candidates appearing for the final year of bachelor’s degree/equivalent qualification or awaiting results are also eligible to apply for the CAT exam

  • As per the legal requirements, 15 per cent of the seats are reserved for Scheduled Caste (SC) and 7.5 per cent for Scheduled Tribe (ST) candidates.

  • 27 percent of the seats are reserved for Other Backward Classes candidates belonging to the “non-creamy” layer (NC-OBC).

  • Up to 10 percent of the seats are reserved for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) candidates.

  • “Person with Benchmark Disability” means a person with not less than forty percent (40 percent) of a specified disability. The categories of disability are: Blindness and low vision, Deaf and hard of hearing, Locomotor disability including cerebral palsy, leprosy cured, dwarfism, acid attack victims and muscular dystrophy, Autism, intellectual disability, specific learning disability and mental illness, Multiple disabilities from amongst persons under clauses (a) to (d), Other ‘specified disabilities’ mentioned in ‘The Schedule’ of the RPwD Act 2016.